Re: reducing distribution CD count

[Demond James <dnjinc@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Jesse Keating wrote:

On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 20:58 +0000, Sitsofe Wheeler wrote:
  

This used to be true for me too but the new "exercises 3D drivers like
no other program" belongs to bzflag. Without fail every version has
found something wrong in the binary nvidia drivers. The latest bzflag
(version 2) now triggers a problem that causes X to take 100% of the
CPU
and nearly stops task switching completely.
    

This would be useful if we shipped Nvidia drivers.  Oh wait, they're
probably in Extras right?

  

It would be nice if Extras could be a network of Fedora/Red Hat certified repos hosted by individual hardware providers and software developers.  FE would have one main list that tells the package update tool where to find the files.  That would save Red Hat from trying to host every software for FCx on their server.

If that buildsystem that has been talked about actually materializes, it can be used for this effort.  Instead of submitting the actual SRPM, the software/hardware vendor would host the binary rpms and FE would have the information to grab these rpms form that location.  Most likely the current repo/metadata setup will have to be extended to handle this.  Not that I want to take away from the work of  repo maintainers.  Perhaps 3rd party repos could be one of the sources in the certified list (for some individual packages not their entire repo). Also, proprietary software companies like skype and adobe, who don't want to release their source code but want to build their software for Fedora/Linux can utilizes this.

There would have to be a certification process ofcourse along with some other legalities.

Just an idea!